11 facts you may not have known about Roman gladiators | OUPblog

Source: 11 facts you may not have known about Roman gladiators | OUPblog

This is a story about the gladiator games of Ancient Rome; they were used to keep the lower classes distracted from dealing with the problems they had, just as the upper classes liked it-and just as the rulers of OUR society like to keep us distracted with sports on TV all the time. Could we PUH-LEEZE take our eyes off the tube and into the book, for a LIT-TLE while, huh?